Posts by Andy 70 190 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009
if Harry thinks those two are worth tapping up, then he will be unable to complete his pilot's training as his vision is clearly not up to the job.
while i'm not usualy a partaker in the ojectification of the fairer sex, if you put yourself on display like a piece of meat, you have to accept that you will be treated like a piece of meat.
not sure if that is supposed to be vaguely ironic. what with this being Peta an'all.
got the original HD,
the polyshell is rated down to 60m - so is excellent for diving. it suffers from the digital camera bane unable to cope with low light sitations, so at 30m and beyond it's starting to look a little grainy as the CCD tries to grab all the stray photons it can, but quality is excellent none the less. all diveshops i've visited have asked for copies of the footage for demo reels etc. if doing swim throughs, trenches, or caves, get a couple of LED floods to fill out.
also good for ski'ing. able to analyse technique and adjust accordingly.
having one of these on a head mount really makes you learn to calm down the head movements in whatever your doing diving/ski'ing/riding.
for a laugh tested in a nightclub. did not work ;)
can record 3-4hrs 1080p to 16Gb SD card on standard battery. just enough to cover a days activities, but would like the extended battery pack, or 3D upgrade.
doesn't get everyday or even weekly use, but wouldn't be without it anyway.
i dunno what everyones whinging about. the "microsoft minute" is a known unknown quantity.
just 'cause it shows you how long it'll take given if the last sample of transfer rate is averaged over the entire length of the transfer, rather than the average since the start, has shown me what files are fragmented, how badly, and also, if someone is eating too much bandwidth on the network. depending on disk to disk, or disk to net copy.
basicly it shows you how shoddy your system is at that exact moment in time.
instead of crying about it, use it.
oh, and i use hipster linux. it's so underground, now i've told you about it, i have to install something else.
let's be honest, apple could produce a <insert generic item here> with an apple logo on it and a $600 dollar price tag, and people would buy it.
pandering press would laud it as the best <generic item> ever.
consumer rags would claim that Apple have unlocked another niche market with their new <generic item>, and how did we never think of <generic item> before? (Even though cheaper, and possibly more functional versions of <generic item> have been lurking in the dark unspoken corners of the world for the last 20 odd years).
Apple. got to hand it to them. their marketing system is now seemingly unstoppable with their brand presence in the minds of the <generic populous>
Larger, cos i'm having one.
anon@ 08:47 - oh thank god it's not just me. last salary 40k, and i get "so will you take 20k then?".
nnnngh!
anyway, any java devs want to bang out a 6 month contract at £650 a day? seems if you're a good dev you can get some decent moola *in laaandaaan* these days.
gutted i didn't stick with code bashing and went server route instead.
<clarkson>
egypt offline huh? how difficult can it be to cage up the carrier pigeons, and put water on the signal fires? or maybe take a cold war era AK47 to the pack mules loaded with floppy disks.
</clarkson>
in all seriousness, they may take down the main providers, but where there's a will there's a way. never underestimate the resourcefullness of geeks hunting bandwidth. even if it is sneakernet across the border with fistfulls of SD cards.
i can't speak for the rest of you, but i'm not exactly going to do photo shoots for vogue.
imagine how the staff feel when they have to deal with a load of travelers:-
1. going to/from a generic game/film/tv show geek convention
2. Saga coach tour load of old folks. (ooooh young man!)
3. hen parties / stag dos..
4. ... various highly vocal religious groups...?
while there is the usual think of the children. i can't think the staff would be too up for it either. i can imagine the CV. Heathrow 'Sweaty Ball' Bag Handler. Staff attrition is going to be interesting.
i dunno. appologies for the above mind dump. just trying to see it from all sides...
i think i'll take the car. when is that atlantic bridge going to be ready?
kaspersky
sophos
symantec
mcafee
spot a running theme here? yup. multi thousand <currency> corporate subscription contracts have lead us to the final inevitable goal of garbage software produced buy the lowest bidder for maximum shareholder profit.
i don't think there is an admin, or tech alive that hasn't cursed any or all of these names repeatedly at some point. its more trouble to install their software than to metaphoricly bend over and pull your cheeks apart on an unprotected net connection.
multi million dollar powered fail.
this is where apple wins out.
your apple server talks to
your apple tv, which syncs to
your apple iTunes, which feeds
your ipod/phone.
then there is
your imac, which talks to
your apple server, and can sync email/calender/contacts with
your iphone.
a mate of mine has kitted out his dental practice entirely with mac hardware, as he can be at a conference in europe, update his contact list and meeting planner, and it updates back in the office straight away, plus sends the meeting amendments to his PA's iphone too.
everything syncronised, no-one out of the loop.
microsoft.
microsoft exchange, windows server, windows homeserver, xbox360, windows7 desktops, windows mobile7 phone.
same level of integration? my hairy chuddies. they have all the main device points covered, but some butchered convoluted way of talking to each other. if at all. kind of a metaphor for the company really.
really thinking of falling to the mac side. only games stopping me. and no, peggle extreme doesn't count.
fail icon, as it probably will.
<warning, random brain spew follows>
So google gets not only updated map data continuously from all the self driving cars, but is able to see what journeys you take, places you go to, commuter routes taken...
maybe even that you put the car in manual and drove at whatever speed in whatever regulated area.
20mph with 1000 or so other googlites on a freeway within a 2 mile radius? rough guess, but traffic problems? update other cars automatically to reroute?
71mph on said freeway with no-one around = automatic speeding fine?
all you need now is a google credit card so they can see what your spending habits are, and automaticly pay fines? maybe that beemer parked across two disabled parking bays will suffer the 200 shekle fine instantly. saves me having to stab his tires with a screwdriver.
you searched for *pron*, a multipack of kleenex has been added to your next online shop.
you updated your xbox live account and purchased some online games. your car has reported however, that you were at work at the time these transactions occured. your online transactions have been canceled, the school truancy officer notified, and social services pending a repeat occurance.
aaaanyway...
also, if you are used to fully automatic driving, are you going to be paying attention to react in an emergency if needed? isn't that the idea? to not have to, in order to use your time more "productivly" myfacing or spacebooking?
are people slowly going to forget how to drive? i used to know pretty much everyone's phone number, but now my mobile does it for me, so i have no idea anymore.
drove home with a dead battery in my phone. no GPS, no emergency numbers, no nothin bar half a tank of gas. talk about flying by the seat of my pants!
<brain spew complete - obligitory big brother icon>
the share price is about the only new thing, but it almost looks like an excuse to trot out a story that is about as old as "console gaming will kill off pc gaming" from the days of the super nintendo and sega megadrive.
windows is so entrenched in industry, it is not going anywhere for a loooooong time. all i can hope for is that Apple do start bringing some game to the table with some big names like autodesk etc, as it is only with some competition that we actually get innovation.
may the most marketed/politically motivated/advertised/spun/flashy/slick man win
i guess voda don't consider the n900 as a mass market device as mine was as clean and unsullied as nokia intended... not a bad thing.. :)
andriod not so much gone down in my estimation, but that this is the inevitable result of mass market acceptance...
for shame telco's, for shame....
what's next, an additional 5er a month to not have adverts pumped onto our handsets?
the tabloids know this...
for every reported failed update there are probably thousands of successfull updates. (and maybe tens of unreported unsuccessfull)
there will always be problems for some people doing this and this is no slight on them, it's just that shit happens.
and as the iPhone is a device that is in the public eye, then every screw up gets more publicity.
as the song goes "that's just the way it is".
having said that, i've got one of these boxes at the end of my road, not really an eye sore any more than the old green boxes. if people really don't like it, paint it red with the royal crest on it. that should shut them up.
but i'm still getting sub 2mbit connection speeds. guess it's not hooked up yet. when i was walking to the station i saw them putting it in about a month or so ago - was temped to ask how much of a back hander did the installers want to get to connect to a self installed fibre line to my house?
can we not just get windows7 sorted and working as a standard platform please?
all of this stuff sounds like it can be bolted onto what ever windows platform already exists... nothing new or revolutionary. just pandering to the drooling masses who currently spend their hard-earned at the apple store or itunes or whatever.
and anyway, i don't understand how they are targeting enthusiasts. as anyone with half an interest has things running how they want, on a pretty tight system.
only ever done a rebuild for performance problems on kiddies laptops where they've installed anything and everything flash game / smiley toolbar related.
just want
"switch on"
"insert/select game"
"play"
no massive OS loading, no update checker for the fraggin printer or basic periferal device kicking in and eating disk/cpu/memory. bang the usb/firewire/TCP stacks and drivers in rom. job's a good un.
good luck to em, i may have a butchers myself...
If apple push their ideas of zig heil mine fuehrer too much, then the people they need to develop for their platform will leave and migrate to the next big thing (ie. android). then the iphone becomes nothing but the vapid fashion statement for the paris hiltons of the world - with their 50,000 fart apps.
If however, apple do get a clue... which is something they've had an uncanny knack of since the gen1 iPod and rainbow coloured all in one eMac/iMac(?) got them out of trouble, then they'll just be lauded by the general media as the heralds of another new technical dawn for the general non-technocrat populace.
Either way, consumer trend moves on and the wheels of commerce keep turning. Just different companies the money goes to.
The only differentiating factor is that people seem to be getting bored with apple throwing their weight around. As soon as this starts to effect the man in the street - game over.
Plus, i don't know about you, but it seems inherent in the human condition to want to see the arrogant fall from grace.
mwahahahahaha....
switch on and go, have basic officey type and print stuffs, browser, basic / C interpreter, maybe an easy to use mod/midi tracker, audio/gfx/net drivers all stuffed into flashrom. insert a disk if you want something more. no need for the comparitive resource hog that is windows.
hmm, where have i seen this sort of thing before...
i think hardware has got to a point where it can cope with pretty much 99% of the things people want it to do with a base machine. hence the rise of the sub £400 laptop.
so bang in a stripped out linux distro in flash with all the apps people want, but with enough juice under the hood to run the latest tomb raider/need for speed/madden/whatever drooling crap falls out of EA's arse, maybe even a bit of multiplayer on the same box/screen like consoles, and TV out ability...
oh wait, PS3 anyone?
while it maybe fine for video delivery to the mass public that is used to the "just about good enough" bunch of products:-
MP3's compressed to within an inch of becoming a pile of squeltchy noise
streaming audio that's worse than AM radio.
iPod DAC's and headphones being, for want of a better word, "shyte"
HD TV that you can pick more blocks out of than a good sized lego set
Flat panel TV's with a pixel response rate so slow that any on screen movement becomes a blurr of confused pixels.
i have not actually seen any increase in progress with regards to quailty since CD/DVD. just what content there is, packaged more conviniently.
anyway, i digress.
trying to push this on to CAD designers and 3D modelers? yeah. i'll just go tell them to ditch their multiple 2560x1600 30" screens for a single 480p feed, and still pay autodesk licensing fees... that'll go down well.
oh, and your machine will need a 5Mb/s permanent hookup to autodesk home base, not to mention all the security worries that entails. plus the magical "if the internet becomes unavailable, your apps stop working". great.
i dunno about you, but i'm sold on the idea.
all these claims and counter claims, accusations, and finger pointing are making people give up. yes we all want to help and do our bit, but one side "massages" their numbers a bit to put them in a positive light, the other side cry "foul" and then counter claim, then the counter counter claim... etc...
what is real? what is not? the public on the whole just want to be told what to do in plain and simple terms.
hence why recycling works. it's simple. plastic in this box, paper in this box, glass in this box, garden waste in this box, kitchen waste in this last one for the foxes/badgers/cats to knock over and spread up the road overnight. the fact it all goes into the same furnace as "bio fuel" is neither here nor there...
anyway, this bullcrap has got to stop for anything environmentally friendly to actually happen on the scale it needs to.
effing 'tards. if he wants to reduce his carbon footprint, why doesn't he just kill himself?
Paris, Cos "Duh!"
Lets face it, The Scum squeals over readers who can read, not just look at the tits or the pictures on the sports pages.
another non story made into a story because it has a tenuous link to a piece of mass consumer fruitware.
said piece of electronics "must have" ability further purpetuated within the lower IQ banded populace by such shonky journalisum. slow news day for the red tops?
Jobs must be rolling in the moola. a fule and its money etc. etc. and as such, i thank him.
take the stupid to the gutter and leave them there.
i had clicked under the pretense that the LHC had found an entertaining way to dispose of celebutards... don't get me wrong, it is interesting reading non-the-less, but with a dissapointing absence of death, dismemberment and such like...
Paris, for the lack of death of.
after reading TFA, it seems that they won on the idea that they only pay for what they use.
going through a slow period, shut down bits of the mainframe, reduce licensing cost.
going through a period of high use? pay to unlock more processor to git-er-dun.
has to be one of the largest pay-as-you-go tariffs i can think of!
i guess the previous setup was like a fixed rate contract - had to have enuff free minutes to cover your useage in a worst case scenario, but if they weren't used, then they were paying for something they weren't needing.
it's all economics really. something you'd hope banks would be good at.
my olds had lightning strike their TV ariel, and it toasted everything connected to it. digibox, VCR, TV, i think the DVD player and stereo bit the big one too.
covered by insurance, not a problem. but the insurance company would only give out dixons/currys vouchers. so they were kinda stuffed if they wanted value for money, or decent kit.
my only expirience of sony viyoh laptops, has been:-
over heating. - unable to use on lap
shoddy assembly. - cracking case or screen mountings/hinges
poor quality components. - caps that crapped themselves after a year or so, optical drives that die...
over priced.
other sony product lines have been well worth the money. but not the viyoh. avoid.
(not even mentioning batteries)
but that could be the particular facet of society i seem to see... being a helpfull technically minded induhvidual, people come to me to fix problems, so i never hear about a machine that people are happy with.
take crap product add sony name. add 400 quid to price. sell to image obsessed management drones. profit.
yawn. more stupidity. oh look, how many BR players have you bought now? 3? 4? why's that? out of date? so your blue ray player can't play blue rays? how about that now...
man, these manufacturers must really have some stupid shills who keep buying their products.
anyway, 3D? till it doesn't require glasses or sitting still in a particular position for the entire length of the film, it'll just ..... fail...
although, apparently, not so stupid as to not be paid 90 grand a fuggin week to "not be bothered to go to training", or "not to be match fit", or to be a fuggin spanner when given the ball and to cry and fall over when a member of the opposing team gets anywhere near them.
if i could garantee that i would be signed up to a major football club in a year, maybe two years time, and paid the miserable sum of 40 grand a week. i would train my nuts off, and live breathe and eat football in the mean time, so that i could:-
be fully trained up and match ready for the period of my contract.
not be a pussy - no falling over and laying there sobbing for no reason.
punch the shit out of ronaldo in a training session, or "friendly" game. woops, erm, i mean, "hug" ronaldo... yeah... thats it. "hug" with knuckle dusters.. to the face...
but it's not going to happen. even though i hate football, the players, the managers, the sponsers, and the so called "expert commentators". i think that would be my main motivation. my absolute unabated hatred, and unbrideled ellation at being able to prove how much better i, a joe nobody, am than any of these kucfwits the public so readily idealise.
grrrrrrr
/rant
Paris, goes she'd do the football team.
seriously, that has to be the worst response in the world.
hey, Mr Eric Schmidt , of 366 Walsh Rd, Atherton, CA 94027
can i look at your internet history please? and your credit card cookies?hey, and your email while you're at it.
why? oh no reason, but then you've got nothing to hide right?
but i would think intel will take the results of this project to improve it's cpus.
massively multicore interconnects?
mesh/grid computing on a chip?
intercore cache sharing?
god knows what else they've come up with to make this thing actauly work, and work it shall. as a dev platform? bit of a hint there. i would have liked to have seen real time ray tracking at 1920x1200 though. maybe next year.
i'll hazard a guess that neither Nvidia nor AMD/ATi were really that worried about it from the get go.
god this is years old, i remember all the sales peeps wanting to get plaxo installed. only to find that it dumped all their contacts out there in the inter-tubes.
not only that, but wasn't there a stupid plaxo toolbar thing that borked outlook/'exchange in a variety of interesting and inconvinient ways?
plaxo to my mind has all the legitimate usability, and usefullness, of the "smiley toolbar" malware.
get rid of it, and you'll get less spam, your machine will be less crashy, and life will be better.
ok, so there is about 20 million of these devices out there? i may be well out of date with that number by now...
and the amount of iSomething owners out there who have never downloaded anything from the store is how many? loads, because they aren't that interested in anything beyond the basic feature set.
they just have an iThingy "cos it is the cool thing to have". never mind figuring out it is one of the most capable devices on the market.
after all, how many iFart, iBeer, and iBoobs applications do you need? kinda sums up the mentality it is catering for.
make mine an android please, as i actually like having usefull apps, thanks.
it'd be nice to see something real instead of press releases of blustering CEO's waving around something their kids knocked up in a CDT lesson.
if this doesn't work, i'm worried it'll be game over, then AMD have the market sown up.
oooh, sole provider to a niche market, watch those prices hike!
I, and possibly my credit card, await.
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